UBC Hospital is a health care facility located on the University Endowment Lands

University Endowment Lands

The University Endowment Lands is an unincorporated area that lies to the west of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada surrounding the University of British Columbia...

 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Canada

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. It opened in 1968, and is now operated by Vancouver Coastal Health

Vancouver Coastal Health

Vancouver Coastal Health is a regional health authority providing direct and contracted health services including primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary care, home and community care, mental health services, population and preventive health and addictions services in part of Greater Vancouver...

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Overview

The acute portion of UBC Hospital has eight operating rooms (including two for the Centre for Surgical Innovation) and 800 staff including 270 physicians and 450 nurses. Patients make approximately 21,600 clinic visits to the hospital annually, to clinics such as the Bladder Care Centre, Movement Disorders/Parkinson’s Clinic, Sleep Disorders Program, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, the Clinic for Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Disorders, Breast Reconstruction Program, Mood Disorders Centre and the Operational Stress Injury (OSI) clinic.
UBC Hospital is made up of three different buildings - Purdy, Koerner and Detwiller Pavilions. Koerner houses mainly acute services, mentioned above. Purdy houses extended/residential care. Detwiller offers psychiatry services.

Units and Specialties

Units include; the Acute Care Unit, Surgical Observation Unit, Transitional Care Unit and Urgent Care Centre in Koerner Pavilion http://www.vch.ca/find_locations/find_locations/?&site_id=239, the Extended Care Unit in Purdy Pavilion http://www.vch.ca/EN/find_locations/find_locations/?&site_id=239, and the Psychiatric Unit in Detwiller Pavilion. Specialty areas at UBC Hospital include: acute medicine, general surgery, reconstructive orthopedic surgery, psychiatry and gerontology.

Centre for Surgical Innovation

The Centre for Surgical Innovation is a provincial specialty centre featuring two new operating rooms and 38 inpatient beds, opened in April 2006. Approximately 1600 hip and knee replacement surgeries surgeries are performed each year.

Urgent Care

The UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre http://www.vch.ca/EN/find_services/find_services/?&program_id=2465 offers specialized treatment for non-life threatening emergencies by emergency trained physicians and nurses. UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre can treat things such as; allergies, asthma, broken bones, cuts that need stitches, eye problems, fevers, flus, IV therapy, minor burns, nosebleeds, skin infections and sprains. The UBC Hospital Urgent Care Centre also offers a range of diagnostic services and testing including X-rays, blood tests, Ultrasound, CT scans and ECGs. The Urgent Care Centre is open daily from 8 am to 10 pm. Appointments are not necessary. The centre handles approximately 18,650 visits every year.

Research

Also located at UBC Hospital is the Brain Research Centre http://www.brain.ubc.ca/, a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute http://www.vchri.ca/s/Home.asp. The Brain Research Centre comprises more than 200 investigators with multidisciplinary expertise in neuroscience research ranging from the test tube, to the bedside, to industrial spin-offs.

The National Core for Neuroethics National Core for Neuroethics

National Core for Neuroethics

The National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia was established in August 2007, with generous support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund,...

, a research-based facility with mandate to tackle the ethical, legal, policy and social implications of frontier neuroscience through high impact research, education and outreach to ensure the close alignment of innovation and human values, is also based at UBC Hospital.